Free Speech Under Threat

 

Free Speech is the ability of anyone to express their thoughts or ideas without the fear of repercussion, with very few exceptions - those opinions that have a likelihood of causing harm, like falsely crying FIRE! in a crowded building.

Vice President J. D. Vance was NOT promoting free speech when he addressed NATO. President Trump is NOT advocating for it. They are both advocating, time and again, for a world where their ideas and opinions are favored and all others are suppressed. This is the antithesis of free speech and the antithesis of freedom in general.

What are they afraid of? What anyone who tries to suppress other people's ideas are afraid of - that they're wrong and will be found out if opposing views are allowed to surface.

Already Trump has had to backtrack on inflation. It is up since he took office. His actions are, in part, responsible. His proposal for a "Riviera in the Middle East" has no solution to the Arab-Israeli issues. Tariffs are paid for by Americans. Vaccines do save lives, including, probably, Trump's own during the Covid pandemic when he got one of the earliest ones and later caught the virus.

But none of that is what they want us to hear. So they are doing their best to suppress those voices.

It behooves us, all, to resist this. If we do not there will soon be a time when we can not.